January 2019 - Fractional CISO

30th January 2019

WiFi Pineapple: Can Still Compromise Your Network in 2019

Suppose you see a few people in a rented car, parked across a street at a hotel, next to an office. Does this sound suspicious to you at all? Not at all! Right? In a real-life version of this story, those people were attempting to perform a cyber-attack on the Organization for the Prevention of…

23rd January 2019

Cybersecurity Breach Bankruptcy: It Does Happen

“Companies don’t go out of business due to a cybersecurity breach,” say several well-versed cybersecurity experts. When I give them counter-examples to disprove their point, they list it as an aberration. Here’s a less catchy but more accurate statement: “Large companies usually don’t go out of business due to a large cybersecurity breach. They can…

9th January 2019

Press Release: Fractional CISO Announces QuantiShield, the Quantitative Cybersecurity Risk Assessment

NEWTON, MASS. (PRWEB) JANUARY 08, 2019 Fractional CISO, the Virtual CISO company, announced today the release of QuantiShield. QuantiShield is the quantitative cybersecurity risk assessment for mid-market technology, financial and manufacturing firms. Today mid-sized companies have difficulty assessing their risk. Existing quantitative risk assessments target large enterprises. These tools are designed for risk management departments….

NIST Cybersecurity Resources During the Shutdown

They did what? During the government shutdown, which has now gone on for over two weeks, the clever folks at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) took down many of the resources that the cybersecurity community relies on to help protect society. The NIST Cybersecurity department has indispensable frameworks and other tools that…